How do I stop Firefox opening multiple tabs?

I upgraded to version 4 of Firefox. After shutting down the other night, every time I open FF it opens 5 tabs for 5 differient websites - all in my favourites. I haved not asked for this and cannot find a way of turning it off. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling FF and the tabs still appear. A little help would be appreciated.

Check to see if they have been set as home pages, if they have you can change the home page as shown here - https://support.mozilla.com/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page3

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Start situation:
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But then when Firefox is already running, previewing causes
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URL?
Teuvo skrev:
> Dreamweaver CS3 and Firefox 2 preview problem
>
> Start situation:
> No browsers open, then previewing page from DW and
Firefox starts and shows
> the page correctly. Great.
>
> But then when Firefox is already running, previewing
causes three new tabs to
> be opened in Firefox, all showing the same page. Not so
nice.
>
> Any idea what causes this problem and how to correct it?
>
> I've already tried removing browsers from the preview in
browser list,
> disabled all extensions.
> However, when I change the settings in Firefox so that
new pages open in a new
> window instead of a tab, only one new window opens up
(not three).
>
> I think it is a problem with DW CS3 and FF together, not
a pure Firefox
> problem as previewing pages from other page editing
tools (Notepad++,
> Expression Web, ) no not cause multiple tabs.
>
>
Kim
http://www.geekministry.com

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